US424021A - William a - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. O. OAKS, OF ANTRIM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOODELL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FORK-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,021, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed November 30, 1339- Serial No. 332,107. (No model.)

To all whom-it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. C. OAKS, of Antrim, county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Carving-Forks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a carving-fork with an improved guard which may be cheaply made and easily cleaned.

In accordance with this invention the guard is pivoted to the shank of the fork and has a heel or seat which bears upon the shank of the fork to limit its movement in one direction, while the outer end of the guard, striking the tine portion of the fork, limits its movement in the opposite direction. The guard is provided with a bar, which is located between the pivot of the guard and the crown or bridge which constitutes the heel of the fork, the said bar lying under the free end of a flat spring secured at one end to the shank of the fork, the said spring exerting but little pressure on the bar when the guard is in one or its other extreme position, as at such time the bar is at one or the other side of the deadcenter, but exerting greater pressure when the guard is at an intermediate point, as at such time the bar raises the spring. The bar upon which the flat spring bears may serve as a limiting-stop by striking against the shank of the fork in lieu of the employment of a heel on the guard.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a carvingfork having a guard made in accordance with this invention, and Fig. 2 a front view of the guard removed.

The handle a, shank b, and tines c are and may be of any suitable construction. The

guard is composed of the arms 2 3 4, the latter arms 3 4 astriding the shank b. A pin 5, passed through the arms 3 4 and the shank 1), serves as a pivot-pin for the guard. The bridge, (marked (1,) or that portion by which the arms 3 4 are joined, constitutes a heel or seat, which, when the guard is in vertical or the arm 2, striking the tine portion 0, limits the movement of the guard in the opposite direction. At a point between the pivot 5 of the guard and the bridge is a bar 6, it connecting the arms 3 4 and beingparallel with the pivot-pin 5. The shank b has attached to it one end of a flat spring 6, and the free end of the said spring bears on the said bar 6 and slides freely thereon. When the guard is in one of its extreme positions, (see full lines, Fig. 1,) the bar 6 is at one side of the dead-center, and as the guard is turned into its other extreme position (see dotted lines) the bar 6 lifts the spring 6 as it passes the dead-center and allows the spring to again fall as the bar 6 passes to the opposite side of the center 5. The bar 6 may be made to strike the shank b when the guard is in its dotted-line position, and thus constitute a limiting-stop, if desired, in lieu of the heel described. By this construction the guard may be cheaply manufactured, and the parts are left so that they may be readily cleansed.

I claim- A carving-fork and a guard having arms 3 4 to straddle the shank of the fork and a forwardly-extended arm 2, the pivot-pin 5 for the guard passed through the shank and arms 3 4, and the bar 6, located between the pivotpin 5 and the crown or bridge (1 of the guard and parallel to the pin 5, combined with the fiat spring e, connected at one end to the shank and extended between the bridge and bar 6 to bear at or near its other end on the said bar 6 and free to slide thereon, the bridge d resting on the shank and limiting the movement of the guard in its vertical position, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. C. OAKS. Witnesses:

' H. A. HURLIN,

MARY J. ABBOTT.

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